Chapter 14 - Departure

Because of the sect robes on him and his identity jade, Long Yang's journey back to the city was smooth. From the details on the paper he got from the sect, he knew which inn the people from the Yun Clan was staying at.

After finding his way there the rest was without an obstruction, he just asked the innkeeper the name of the man on the paper, Chen Zhaohui. After getting the description of the face of the man, he started checking out the few places in the inn they might be at. The innkeeper had only told him they were in the inn. When he found them they were eating in the dining room of the inn.

The guy could be seen as an old man who had a short hair and beard. Seeing his beard he thought about the habit of the old servants in the clans. They would usually shave their beard to not look wiser than their masters.

The old man wasn't alone, he was dining with four people. Two of them were hooded and they stood out in a glance.

Seeing his robes they straightened their backs and got up. The old man cupped his fist with his other hand and bowed a little.

"Hello, sir. I wonder if your reason for finding us the mission we issued?" said the old man in anticipation.

"You're right, I am Long Yang an outer disciple of the sect. I wonder if you're Chen Zhaohui?" asked Long Yang.

"Indeed, this old man is known by that name. Most welcome, sir. Let me introduce you, this young man is Guo Longwei he is also a servant of our clan." said Chen Zhaohui pointing at a young man.

"At your service, sir." said Guo Longwei before cupping his fist and bowing slightly.

"This woman is Xiong Peizhi, also a servant in our clan." continued Chen Zhaohui while pointing at the only girl in the five people.

The girl had an ordinary look which was a blessing for a servant. After the introduction she also paid her respects.

"These two are slaves of our young master, Shi Enlai and Cao Zhen." said the old man before pointing out them by saying their names in order.

The two hooded men directly bowed deeply before cupping their fists and after raising they kept their heads lowered.

"Young master? I wonder if he or she came for recruitment of the sect too?" asked Long Yang curiously.

"Indeed, sir. Our young miss, Yun Lin entered the sect today successfully. But because her cultivation was low she couldn't come for the mission herself. After issuing the mission she decided to leave her two servants behind to help out the one who decided on taking the task." said Chen Zhaohui with shining eyes.

Hearing that Long Yang nodded and thought 'That's how it should be, those cultivation arts in the clans would only get them so far. I wonder why i didn't hear anyone from Sun Clan entering the sect. Even the Sun Guo continued to stay in the clan until he was 20 years old. And that was only when I left the clan, I would hear about him like people from other clans if he left the clan for the sect. Even I heard about this Yun Lin before the recruitment.'.

"I see, I wish her good luck in the road of cultivation. May she be the rising phoenix of your clan. Can you tell me about the mission and your clan a little bit? The mission wasn't detailed enough to deal with all things." said Long Yang.

After hearing the young man gave his wished to his miss, all five of the peoples faces lit up and their chins rose slightly. Long Yang didn't miss it and it only raised his evaluation of the young miss of Yun Clan. Long Yang always believed, you could only see ones true face with the way they treat the people around them. And in this world the servants were even more relevant to that. He believed the servants' behavior in the Sun Clan was also reflected the way they had beed treated. Since most of the time he was treated as a trash, he could see their true faces.

Chen Zhaohui interrupted his thoughts and said "Of course, sir. Yun Clan is the head clan of the Zeloth City and under the jurisdiction of Mount Emei Sect. We are one of the few clans in the west side of the continent who have spirit stone mine and that's also why we could be count as a wealthy clan. Because of our relationship with Mount Emei Sect, we were the behemoths of the Zeloth City for some time and we didn't encounter any problems for years. This is why we were surprised when we noticed merchants were being robbed on our trade route between the Zeloth City and Emei City. Since we take the matter with spirit stone seriously, they won't even think about targeting our convoy so the matter didn't come that far. But since the safety of our route directly related of our Zeloth City's prosperity, we decided to act on it. For this mission we will escort our shipment from here to Zeloth City without any amblem related to Yun Clan. After baiting them out we will take care of their underlings and the head of the bandits shall be Sir's to handle.".

"Sounds like a plan, but i hope there are others in the escort, things may go south very easily." said Long Yang doubfully.

"You're right sir, I am at the fifth layer of Qi Condensation and the other four here are third or fourth layer cultivators. Other than us, the escorted caravan also hired some people from around the city and we should be able to deal with the underlings pretty easily." said readily Chen Zhaohui expecting his concerns.

"Then there is no problem, let us proceed if you're not occupied." said Long Yang

Chen Zhaohui nodded and answered "We were waiting for someone from the sect to accept the mission, we are ready to depart anytime, sir.". After saying that they left the inn and went to the rendezvous point with the other people from the caravan. The shipment they told about was the various pills and earnings from a small pavilion in the city which was owned by Yun Clan.

After checking out the ten or so people who would be escorting the caravan Chen Zhaohui nodded and looked at Long Yang.

Checking them himself, Long Yang also looked Chen Zhaohui and nodded. "Let us depart." he said slowly.